Plan of Dock Company 'Coffee Pot' No.16. Built by Head Wrightson in 1870 this was the first vertical boiler engine to come to Seaham, it is shown brand new in the 1870 photograph of the incline at the dock top. (RY 005)
Loco 17 (built in 1873) photographed in the late 1890s, the cab was later removed. Loco-men's shed behind, above that the Bridge Inn (Vaults) 32/33 North Railway Street, Mary Jane Kennedy was licensee and confectioner at the time. At top right is the only view I have ever seen of the two storey houses at the southern end of the original Henry Street. John Adamson Ferry Lewis born 1878 2nd from left standing.
Detail from previous photograph.
I originally dated this photograph as 1873, the year Loco 17 was built as it appears to be new in every respect but I am reminded by Ian Thirlwell that the young man at the left of this crop was born in 1878 which would place the photograph in the late 1890s.
Mary Jane Kennedy, landlady of the Bridge at the time of the photograph first appears there in the 1881 census and leaves sometime between 1902 and 1910.
